construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment … not declared a patent as essential to IEEE (the control group). Using a difference-in-differences approach, I provide … the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …

At which stage in the production chain should patent licensing takes place? In this paper we show that under realistic … circumstances a patent holder would be better off by licensing downstream. This occurs when the licensing revenue can depend on the … when, instead, we assume that the downstream licensee is less informed about the validity of the patent. In most cases …

standardization body may be under an obligation under contract law or EU competition rules to grant a license to component suppliers …

reduce standardization, impede innovation, and constrain market negotiation of patent license agreements. The article … decision making. SEP holders and implementers create negotiated FRAND commitments through patent license agreements. Courts … introduces the concept of the “patent run-around” to describe potential effects of “licensing to all” regulations. The article …

's usefulness in estimating the share of true SEPs in firm patent portfolios for several mobile telecommunication standards. We find …

The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, setting became overtly … substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to encourage court litigants to rely on Patent Office expertise for … emergent border between court and agency power in the U.S. patent system. By design, the border is not absolute. Concurrent …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

We study how fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the … Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing …. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts faster settlement agreements when patent rights are fragmented and …